for me it was back in 2012 i think
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1998 I moved to cable modem in Argentina. Around that time also moved to optical mouse Microsoft IntelliMouse and 3dfx video card. In 2008 I got my first SSD. I think those thing were one of the most shocking technologies I experienced.
I stopped once I ran out of hours. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
I think I got DSL in 2000 or 01.
Same for me. I got DSL in the summer of 2000.
1999
I got a cable modem for my birthday that year. Ha!
No speed caps, and I hit a whopping 4Mbps download. It was faster than the local highschool. Sweeeeet.
2004 or 2005, because my mom started working from home and got cable. Once I left home, it was fiber pretty much everywhere except the year or two I used DSL. I’m currently on a weird fiber backed Ethernet network (Ethernet to the home), and we’re rolling out real fiber over the next couple of years.
- Rural Germany.
Dial up in 2015? How?
With a bluetooth modem lol
2000 or 2001, can’t remember which.
I went to college in 1997 and went from 28.8kbps dialup to a 2.4gbps OC-48. I had no idea how slow the rest of the internet was until I had a better connection than most servers (at the time).
Your dorm must have had epic lan parties.
I worked for the department that ran student computer labs (before most people started bringing computers to college with them). That’s where the real epic lan parties happened. Every time we’d update the desktops celebrate with an all-nighter lan party for staff and friends.
I went to a small charter high school around 2002-3 and their whole education curriculum was on computers. The school principal would do monthly lan parties, then wipe the floor with us teenagers on age of empires 2. I still fear elephant charges.
My exact timeline.
Hello fellow 45 year old.
Hey! How are your knees.
Kinda painful when it rains, cause of the titanium pins
What was the time in-between those two?
Would be insane going from 28.8k to 2.4gbps
The 90 minutes drive from where I grew up to my dorm room.
So you moved and got a 83333x improvement just by moving?
Other than paying for tuition and dorm housing, yes.
1995 or so. My first apartment had 10 mbit/sec internet. Was so cool to download anything in seconds. :)
Well…now you’re just going to have to share your time machine with the rest of us!
What? I assume you DO have a time machine, right? You clearly have cutting edge technology decades before anyone else. I think I only got above 5MB/sec internet about 5 years ago? Now it’s suddenly 100MB/Sec internet, and I’m like “Ok cool…I’m still not doing anything that requires that much speed…”
I live in Sweden. It was common with ethernet connections in the apartments when I was growing up. So not a time machine. But I could be getting the exact year wrong a little bit.
And it was 10 mbit connections, so that’s just about 1 mbyte / second. Still plenty fast when it arrived.
Today I have 500 mbit connection with option for 1000 mbit. It’s common here.
Edit: I asked chatgpt and it was 1999 that the first apartments got 10 mbit / sec connections. So I was off with about 5 years actually.
Early 2000s , xp was still out and you wore an onion on your belt as that was the style at the time.
- I was part of the ADSL trial in the UK and have been on a form of broadband ever since.
2001/2002 I believe we got DSL.
Somewhere around 2005
1999 - DSL After that, cable was pretty much everywhere I lived.
I want to say it was about 2005 or 2006.
My first “broadband” was Hughes satellite internet, due to living in a rural location. It was hot garbage, but it was better than dialup.
The speeds were Ok (for me), but the data cap (applied daily) was draconian. I don’t recall the specific amount but it basically made it impossible to stream video in any capacity.
There was a 3-hour period from midnight to 3am every night where the cap didn’t count. That effectively became internet time because it was unusable otherwise.
I got cable in 2010.
2000? Earlier? 🤔
I’m not exactly sure when we had first upgraded from 56.6k dialup to a DSL(? If I am remembering the acronym right; it was phone line broadband not cable) line. I was still playing Ultima Online at the time so it had to be prior to 2003 (I quit when Age of Shadows fucked the game all up).
By 2007, we had cable Internet and it was like triple the speeds of the DSL.
